Fifth Generation

Received into the care of the Broad Run Bapt Church on 9 Oct 1763 as the son of Lazarus Dodson.

George Dodson married Hannah Wall on 19 Apr 1787. John Bennett was bondsman. Charles Wall, father of the bride, gave permission. John Adkinson performed the ceremony.

George served in the Revolution. He enlisted under Capt Benjamin Terry and was transferred to Capt Joseph Morton. He was marched to Guilford Court house where George was severely wounded in the knee. He applied for and received an Invalid Pension in 1829 and Dr. Raleigh White certified that "the wound was no better than it first healed up". After 1782, the Pittsylvania County Court exempted George from the payment of taxes. His 2nd wife, Lucy Dodson, received a bounty land warrant in 1855 for his service. When he applied for the pension, he state he was then supporting a wife and three children - he surely had children by both wives but they haven't been identified.

George received his father's homeplace when Lazarus died in 1799. He qualified as executor of Lazarus's estate 16 Sep 1800. He lived all his life in Pittsylvania Co.